Who's FICA? Why's he getting all my money?

By Anonymous - 31/08/2022 10:00

Today, my daughter is mad sulking because she got her first wage today and learned a bunch of new words like national insurance, pension contributions, taxes, automatic student loan repayments, and so on. She actually thought she got to keep ALL the money she earned, and is taking it out on us. FML
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Same thing different taste

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Did you teach her about the various things that will be taken out of her wages when she gets her first check?

Tell her that she stops giving you shit or she's going to need to learn the meaning of words like rent and utilities.

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Oh the beauty of becoming a member of workers. This is the time to teach her valuable lesson, if she wants to improve the salary she needs to aim higher and learn basics of economics, investment and tax. Also another tip for future is to check Salary after tax through many online calculator for estimation, so that in future she won't take a job that sounds great but after tax is barely minimum wage left. Don't know if I'd blame parents, you surely explained her the employment dos and don'ts, and benefit of contracts, and how wages work? If you didn't then I understand her anger, if school failed this part then as parents you surely would have asked her about her first job and what it does, etc. You know make sure your child doesn't get abused by employer for being young and clueless

Tell her that she stops giving you shit or she's going to need to learn the meaning of words like rent and utilities.

Did you teach her about the various things that will be taken out of her wages when she gets her first check?

This is why it’s so much better to follow a career in bank robbery. None of those pesky deductions.

Ahhh,the transition to realism and conservatism has begun.

Go have kids! You think the government gobbles up your paycheck? If your daughter wants to see the biggest gobbler of your paycheck, have her look in the mirror.

It sucks she's taking her bad mood out on you but this is your fault. You raised her. You're why she didn't already know this.